A Royalist, in 1661, after the Restoration, he was made a member of the Privy Council of Scotland.
He sat in Parliament from 1661 to 1663 for Perthshire.
In 1678, he passed his lands and baronies of Inchmichael and Inchture to his son Patrick.
Charles II knighted him 28 December 1682 and he became Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (Peerage of Scotland).
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